On Thursday, December 21st, winter will officially arrive in Mexico at 9:27 p.m., which marks the beginning of this season in the Northern Hemisphere.
Thursday the Second Winter Storm of the season will enter Mexico. This will cause heavy to intense rains and strong winds in northwest Mexico.
The convergence of cold front number 19 and low pressure will cause the Second Winter Storm to approach the Baja California Peninsula and cause intense occasional rains in Baja California and heavy rains in Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, and Sonora.
Minimum temperatures of -10 to -5 degrees with frost are expected during the early morning in the mountains of Chihuahua, Durango, Hidalgo, Puebla and Veracruz; from -5 to 0 degrees Celsius and frost in the mountains of Baja California, Coahuila, State of Mexico, Guanajuato, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Tlaxcala and Zacatecas.
In the mountain areas of Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Mexico City, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, and Tamaulipas, temperatures of 0 to 5 degrees Celsius will be recorded. During Thursday night and early Friday, snow or sleet is expected to fall over the mountains of Baja California.
The winter storm will also cause a northern event in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, with waves of 2 to 3 meters high in the gulf, and wind gusts of 40 to 60 km/h in Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Sonora, and Tamaulipas.
TYT Newsroom